IC 2580
IC 2580
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
147 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 147 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2580 as it looked roughly 147 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
NGC 3281Spiral9.3 million ly
apartNGC 3258EBarred spiral9.9 million ly
apartNGC 3224Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 3257Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 3285BBarred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 2559Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3258EBarred spiral9.9 million ly
apartNGC 3224Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 3257Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 3285BBarred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 2559Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).